AFTERIMAGE. Koen Broucke - Jan Cockx - Vincent Van GoghKoen Broucke is a historian and artist. He draws his work from historical research which proceeds seamlessly to the production of expressive work and vice versa. His specific interest in the biographies of artists has given rise to studies of crisis situations in the lives of artists, in which he doesn’t opt for the well known facts of the history of art, but focuses attention on virtually lost documents and stories. And so, on the basis of rediscovered black and white photographs, he has reconstructed the tragic life of Jan Cockx, from his controversial role in World War II to his tragic death in his atelier. For Vincent Van Gogh, Broucke similarly went looking for works which had disappeared during bombardments, stolen works, and drawings which have been suppressed due to prudish civil morality. Together with original work by Vincent Van Gogh and Felix De Boeck, the exhibition shows a series of recently appeared exceptional works by Jan Cockx of the interwar period.